Sunday, 17 feb 2019
1.Flight Lieutenant Hina Jaiswal becomes IAF's first woman flight engineer
*Flight Lieutenant Hina Jaiswal scripted history
by becoming the first woman flight engineer to be inducted into the Indian Air Force. Till last year, the Flight Engineer branch was exclusively the men's domain.
2. Bradley Cooper Wins 'Oscat' Award From PETA
*PETA's Film and Television Division handed out its second annual "Oscat" awards, promoting good behaviour toward animals on screen and on set. Bradley Cooper earned the Best Director prize.
3. Argentina President to arrive in India today for 3-day visit
*Argentina's President Mauricio Macri will arrive in India today for a three-day visit during which he will hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to enhance cooperation in key sectors such as economy, nuclear technology and space.
4.IndianMoney.com unit gets licence for insurance biz
*IndianMoneylnsurance.com, a subsidiary of the Bengaluru-based IndianMoney.com Group, has received the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India's insurance broking licence to enter the insurance business.
5.Centre increases MSP of Sugar by 2 Rs/Kg
*The Centre has increased the minimum selling
price of sugar by two rupees per kilogram to 31 rupees a kilogram. It has been done by considering the rising arrears of sugarcane growers.
6.National Championship: Saina Nehwal beats, PV Sindhu
*Saina Nehwal won her second consecutive
and fourth overall Senior Nationals women's single badminton title defeating PV Sindhu 21-18, 21-15 in the final in Guwahati. Sourabh Verma clinched men's title.
7.HP Assembly passes Bill to make Sanskrit ,2nd the official language
*The Himachal Pradesh Assembly passed
Himachal Pradesh Official Language Bill, 2019 (Amendment). It was introduced to make Sanskrit the second official language of the state.
8.India hikes customs duty on goods from Pakistan to 200%
*The Union government has hiked the basic
customs duty on all goods imported from Pakistan to 200 percent with immediate ef- fect. This comes after India revoked the 'Most Favoured Nation' (MFN) status to Pakistan.
9.Hero Motors to invest Rs 2,000 crore by 2020
*Hero Motors Company firmed up plans to
invest Rs 2,000 crore across its hospitality, auto components and bicycles businesses by the end of next year to scale up operations.
10.Best-selling British author Andrea Levy passes away at 62
*Andrea Levy, a prize-winning novelist who
chronicled the hopes and horrors experienced by the post-World War ll generation of Jamaican immigrants in Britain, has died. She was 62
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